Location:
Burton Upon Trent (DE14 2UZ)
Contract type:
Full time
Hours:
40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Salary:
£57,000 per annum plus car / car allowance, 25 days rising holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
About the Role
Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. You'll have an important part to play overseeing and optimising all aspects of our logistics processes.
Here at Unipart we don't just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way. It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level, through Unipart's ‘From Gate to Great' training and development program.
As our Head of Operations you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the timely and efficient delivery of goods to our customers while maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality, cost, and delivery.
As part of your key responsibilities you'll:
- Lead and manage the operations team to achieve excellence in safety, quality, cost, and delivery
- Establish and maintain strong working relationships with the client and key suppliers
- Monitor and analyse KPIs / data to identify areas for improvement, and implement corrective actions
- Drive a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement within outbound operations
- Recruit exceptional people into the business and then develop colleagues through, using succession planning for the future
- Maintain all aspects of stock integrity and ensure ownership of activities and resolutions
- Manage and plan for operational requirements against forecast
About You
We'd love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you'd be able to perform well in this role!
- Experience of leading operations for a large 3PL or in-house function in a high-volume / fast paced environment
- Knowledge of the latest warehousing and distribution best practices and emerging concepts and solutions from across the logistics industry
- Experience of coaching and mentoring people – excellent leadership skills
- Experience of working in an operation with a high degree of change
- Track record of influencing internal people and at all levels to drive change
- Excellent communication skills - spoken, written, and presenting
- Appetite to learn more about Industry 4.0 technologies and apply digital solutions to applicable operational areas and processes
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.
You may have experience in the following roles: Operations Director, Logistics Manager, Supply Chain Manager, Distribution Manager, Operations Leader, Warehouse Manager, Logistics Operations Manager, Fulfilment Centre Manager, Regional Operations Manager, etc.
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